German walker As I mentioned previously, I’m enjoying my efforts of making sense of this long-distance walking in general, and of this South West Coat Path in general.  I’m afflicting you with more of my early thoughts here, especially as this walk relates to pilgrimages. For simplicity’s sake, a pilgrim is a person moving toward …

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The standard image of a pilgrim is a walking figure. I enjoy the figure on the Mount of Forgiveness only a few miles outside Pamplona. The pilgrims are walking or riding. I thoroughly enjoy the lone pilgrim outside O Cebreiro who holds his hat as he strides into the Atlantic wind. Pilgrims moving! Yet pilgrims …

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